Program Overview

Management and Corporate Governance - MSc

Overview

The MSc Management and Corporate Governance course is a part-time postgraduate program that combines the study of management and corporate governance with the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland qualification. This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, professional, and transferable skills necessary for senior appointments in industry, the social economy, voluntary, charitable, and public sectors.

About this course

The course aims to provide students with a broad knowledge and understanding of the core areas of management and corporate governance. It covers topics such as corporate law, finance, governance, and corporate secretarial practice. The course is designed to develop students' transferable intellectual skills necessary for senior management roles and to equip them with the knowledge and skills required to enter employment in roles such as corporate secretary, corporate administrator, and head of compliance.

Attendance and Independent Study

The part-time MSc Management and Corporate Governance course is usually taught over 2 years. In semesters 1 and 2, the lectures take place during the afternoon and evening of one day per week. As well as weekly lectures, some subjects are taught on a "block" basis - meaning that the modules are taught over four days; one module in semester 1. Students completing the Master's qualification will be required to take three modules in semester 3, these are usually taught on a 4-day "block" basis between May and July.

Modules

Year one

• Company Compliance and Administration: This module provides the student with the knowledge of compliance and administration processes that are required to fulfil the role of an effective governance professional.
• Corporate Financial Management: This module introduces participants to the importance of Financial Management and its linkage with corporate strategy.
• Strategy: This module will equip students with the tools necessary to carry out an effective strategic analysis of any organisation.
• Corporate Governance: The module informs and equips students to effectively respond to the governance challenges organisations face today.
• Human Resource Management: The module aims to enable students to acquire a broad knowledge and understanding of the core areas of Human Resource Management.
• Management Project: The core aim of the management project is that students should investigate an important, contemporary and relevant management issue for their organisation or profession.

Year two

• Financial Accounting: This module provides a firm foundation of the concepts underpinning corporate reporting to enable students to develop an understanding of the application of these concepts in practice.
• Effective Boardroom Decision Making and Risk Management: The aim of this module is for students to develop and extend their understanding of boardroom dynamics and decision making, including the discipline of risk management.
• Strategic Operations and Quality Management: The Operations function is that part of an organisation that focuses on the economic, efficient and effective use of resources to provide a quality of customer service as the basis for creating business profitability and/or value-for-money.
• Behavioural Dynamics and Effective Team Performance Management: This module provides students with a framework of knowledge from which to understand and analyse organisational and team behaviour at both the personal and interpersonal level.
• Company Law: This module introduces students to the body of rules and principles of law which regulate public and private companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Standard entry conditions

• You should have a second-class honours degree in any subject from a recognised institution or have obtained an equivalent standard in a professional or other qualification recognised by the University for this purpose.
• If you do not meet the above requirements, you may be admitted at the discretion of the Course Committee.
• Students who have achieved relevant professional or postgraduate qualifications MAY be granted exemptions from modules on the course, in accordance with the University's accreditation of prior learning (APL) policy.

English Language Requirements

• International students will be required to have achieved IELTS 7 (with no contributing band at less than 6.0) or equivalent.

Careers & opportunities

• Students who study the part-time route through this course may be able to seek promotion within their own organisation.
• There is a great demand for graduates from this course who have both a valuable academic qualification and a professional qualification from ICSA.
• A number of organisations recruit directly from this course each year and the course can boast an employment rate of over 90% over the past few years.

Professional Recognition

• Accredited by The Chartered Governance Institute (CG) for the purpose of exemptions from some professional examinations.

Fees and funding

• The price of your overall programme will be determined by the number of credit points that you initiate in the relevant academic year.
• Fees illustrated are based on academic year 25/26 entry and are subject to an annual increase.

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